Questioning the company as the basic constellation for creating, practising and teaching dance as well as observing it in a more anthropological way as a group of humans gathering as a herd, that naturally develops its own rules and organization.

Felix Ruckert’s work is known for its radical propositions, this project won’t do without: in the overall organizational parameters of the work, as the role of the choreographer as the creative mastermind is put to the background.

In the first phase of the process, the group was put under the influence of different invited choreographers and pedagogues – among them Julyen Hamilton (Improvisation), Kirstie Simson (Contact-improvisation), Elizabeth Corbett (William Forsythe). Therefore, the dancers encountered different work processes, techniques and tools that they were assked to compare and digest. This common learning created a common experience and background and shared memories for the group. In a second phase of the work, different approaches of collective choreographic composition were tested. The intention being to address chaos and intuition as starting points for the creative process rather than analysis and planning.

Felix Ruckert wished to put together a context of work, both pragmatic and playful, as in the societies where the gap between work and leisure is not as acute as in our western society. The group, by its researches, its dance and its self-observation tries to answer some philosophical and social questions that this setting will inevitably induce.